2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: MoveOn has a perfect response to Netroots controversy: [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)but barren soils does guarantee a poor harvest for everyone.
Imo, this is what Social Democracy is about. You have to prepare the field in order for all the great things we want to grow. Rights for women, POC, minorities, vet's, disabled, children, are all at the mercy of our economic system. Every year government generates new laws, and that can be great, but what we also need generated is new economic opportunity.
We can pass more laws saying all our injured veterans will get better taken care of, but if government doesn't generate the revenue, or cut wasteful spending, it just won't happen. We can legislate how companies hire, so that it's more fair, but that doesn't create jobs.
We can legislate that college admissions must meet a fair criteria. but that doesn't help students get jobs before, during, and after, they attend. Without an economy with jobs, attaining a degree becomes less of a valued achievement.
We want safer neighborhoods, more hospitals and clinics, roads and sidewalks in good repair, a good system of utilities, public transportation, clean water, clean food, clean air, all the good things of life, and they all require the kind of economic change that Social Democracy is all about.
We want social change. But for that crop to flourish and truly be bountiful, the soil has to be prepared.
It's just basic good sense to agree to this, and to encourage it coming about.